Diffuse, dwarf, the whole plant viscidulous; branches decumbent, divaricate, roughly hispid, rusty-brown; branchlets set at nearly a right angle from the stem; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, elliptical or lanceolate, acute, sparingly hispid above or glabrescent, glabrous below, margins recurved, open-backed, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers axillary, 1-2-3 in the whorls of the uppermost leaves; pedicels slender, hispid, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs, 3/4 lin. long; corolla funnel-shaped, abruptly widening above the middle, glabrous, dry, 'pink', 1 lin. long; segments erect, broad-oblong, obtuse, from 1/2 the tube to equal to it in length; anthers subincluded (shorter than the whole corolla but manifest), lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, pale brown, 1/3 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/4 the length of the cell, awns rough, about 1/3 the length of the cell; style slender, included, a little shorter than the stamens; stigma subsimple, very small; ovary subglobose, glabrous.
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